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Author: oboesax
Date: 2010-11-23 13:38
My daughter played Thoroughly Modern Millie earlier this year for her high school, and played Reed 3. She is also an oboe player, equal with sax. (It was her first musical and I helped coach her; that's why I'm familiar with the music). She was disappointed with the relatively few measures given to oboe and to soprano sax. There is one important oboe solo in around the 7th song where the oboe plays like a typewriter. She found that a lot of fun. There were a couple of other short solos, but they couldn't be heard as well (they didn't mike her). On the Broadway recording we have there is a nice oboe solo in the overture, but in her production they let the flute player play it too (she was playing only flute and didn't have many parts), which rather spoiled the solo. There were a few fun lines on soprano sax that she really liked. But in total, about 90% of Reed 3 is played on clarinet and tenor sax. Oboe has the fewest measures.
She really enjoyed the musical however and wishes she could play it again.
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oboesax |
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